DESCRIPTION: Slightly smaller in size than other subspecies of the often 12.5-foot long, 6.5-foot tall American bison, the plains bison has a long, shaggy, dark-brown coat; short, backward-arching ...

One hundred wood bison will be reintroduced to the Alaskan wilderness later this month, somewhere they have not lived in the wild for over a century. Ray Bulson/Design Pics/Corbis Wood bison aren ...

The organization that he, President Theodore Roosevelt and others formed in 1905 to help save the animal from extinction was named the American Bison Association. But still, the usage of ...

Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies of the African buffalo ... but it’s thought early American settlers called bison “buffalo” because they look similar—large, brown, hulking ...

Fermilab rotates the bison bulls every five to seven years to maintain genetic diversity — while ensuring the herd remains as close to full-blooded American bison as possible. Genetic testing in ...

Though related to the American bison, they are completely different ... Cape buffalo are a subspecies of African buffalo, and they are the type of buffalo you would see in the wild on a safari ...